Phoebe Anna Traquair, I : Murals
Phoebe Anna Traquair, I - Murals:
0:04 St. Mary's Cathedral, Song School, Edinburgh
1:39 St Peter's Church, Clayworth, Yorkshire
4:13 Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh
4:32 Mansfield Traquair Centre, Edinburgh
Music: An Irish Carol Nightnoise
Phoebe Anna Traquair (Dublin,1852- Edinburgh,1936) was the leading artist the Arts and Crafts movement in Edinburgh. From the 1880s to the 1920s she worked in a wide range of media, including easel painting, embroidery, manuscript illumination, book cover tooling, enamelling, as well as mural decoration. She exhibited in Chicago, London, Turin and St Louis in the 1890s and 1900s.
The third daughter of a Dublin physician, Phoebe Anna Moss attended the art school of the Royal Dublin Society and moved to Edinburgh following marriage to the Scottish palaeontologist Ramsay Heatley Traquair (1840-1912). The eldest of their three children, also Ramsay Traquair, became Professor and Director of the School of Architecture at McGill University, Montreal, in 1913.
Traquair painted the interiors of several buildings between 1885 and 1901.
The song school of St Mary's Cathedral (1888--92) won Traquair national recognition. Within a tunnel-vaulted interior, the east wall depicts the cathedral clergy and choir.
The south wall depicts Traquair's admired contemporaries such as Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Holman Hunt, and George Frederic Watts. On the north wall birds and choristers sing together, and the west wall shows the four beasts singing the Sanctus. The Song School is still used daily for practice by the Choristers.
Her best known work is in the vast former Catholic Apostolic Church (1893--1901), actually the Mansfield Traquair Centre, in Broughton Street which has been called Edinburgh's Sistine Chapel, and a jewelled crown. It was this work which helped to confirm her international recognition.
All Saints Church, Marcham
The tower of the Church of England Parish Church of All Saints dates from early in the 13th century. It has a ring of six bells.The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1837.
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A pillbox of the World War 2 GHQ Red Stop Line is to be found near to the church.
Marcham means a place where Wild Celery grows. There are salty springs in the area.
St. Luke's Garford:
On the second Sunday of each month there is a service at 10.30am for either Holy Communion or Morning Worship at St Lukes Garford.
Murals Song School Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of photographs of murals in the Song School by St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. The Song School within the nearby Cathedral precinct is used by the Choristers for daily practice, where they are surrounded by beautiful murals by Phoebe Anna Traquair.
Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) A collection of paintings 4K Ultra HD
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (1741-1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.
Kauffman was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland. Her family moved to Morbegno in 1742, then Como in Lombardy in 1752 at that time under Austrian rule. In 1757 she accompanied her father to Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg/Austria where her father was working for the local bishop. Her father, Joseph Johann Kauffmann, was a relatively poor man but a skilled Austrian muralist and painter, who was often traveling for his work.
He trained Angelica and she worked as his assistant, moving through Switzerland, Austria, and Italy. Angelica, a child prodigy, rapidly acquired several languages from her mother, Cleophea Lutz, including German, Italian, French and English. She also showed talent as a musician and was forced to choose between opera and art. She quickly chose art as a Catholic priest told Kauffman that the opera was a dangerous place filled with seedy people. By her twelfth year she had become known as a painter, with bishops and nobles being her sitters.
In 1754, her mother died and her father decided to move to Milan. Later visits to Italy of long duration followed. She became a member of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in 1762. In 1763 she visited Rome, returning again in 1764. From Rome she passed to Bologna and Venice, everywhere feted for her talents and charm. Writing from Rome in August 1764 to his friend Franke, Winckelmann refers to her popularity; she was then painting his picture, a half-length; of which she also made an etching.
While Kauffman produced many types of art, she identified herself primarily as a history painter, an unusual designation for a woman artist in the 18th century. History painting was considered the most elite and lucrative category in academic painting during this time period and, under the direction of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the Royal Academy made a strong effort to promote it to a native audience more interested in commissioning and buying portraits and landscapes.
Despite the popularity that Kauffman enjoyed in British society, and her success there as an artist, she was disappointed by the relative apathy of the British towards history painting. Ultimately she left Britain for the continent, where history painting was better established, held in higher esteem and patronized.
History painting, as defined in academic art theory, was classified as the most elevated category. Its subject matter was the representation of human actions based on themes from history, mythology, literature, and scripture.
This required extensive learning in biblical and Classical literature, knowledge of art theory and a practical training that included the study of anatomy from the male nude. Most women were denied access to such training, especially the opportunity to draw from nude models; yet Kauffman managed to cross the gender boundary to acquire the necessary skill to build a reputation as a successful history painter who was admired by colleagues and eagerly sought by patrons.
By 1911, rooms decorated with her work were still to be seen in various quarters. At Hampton Court was a portrait of the duchess of Brunswick; in the National Portrait Gallery.
There were other pictures by her at Paris, at Dresden, in the Hermitage at St Petersburg, in the Alte Pinakothek at Munich, in Kadriorg Palace, Tallinn and in the Joanneum Alte Galerie at Graz. The Munich example was another portrait of herself, and there was a third in the Uffizi at Florence. A few of her works in private collections were exhibited among the Old Masters at Burlington House.
Kauffman is also well known by the numerous engravings from her designs by Schiavonetti, Francesco Bartolozzi and others. Those by Bartolozzi especially found considerable favour with collectors. Charles Willson Peale, artist, patriot, and founder of a major American art dynasty, named several of his children after notable European artists, including a daughter, Angelica Kauffman Peale.
A biography of Kauffman was published in 1810 by Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi . The book was also the basis of a romance by Léon de Wailly and it prompted the novel contributed by Anne Isabella Thackeray to the Cornhill Magazine in 1875 entitled Miss Angel.
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Bellringing at Astbury, Cheshire
Another go at Cornovii Delight Major on the lovely eight at Astbury, near Congleton, Cheshire. A rather superb looking church - but has never been unlocked whenever I've visited. The bells are a 1925 Taylor six, augmented to eight in 1998.
Old Kate of Lincoln
Old Kate was cast in 1585 by Oldfield. She weighs 8cwt and is hung in the small tower of the redundant church of St Benedict, Lincoln. The bell seems to have been original to the church but was moved to another church for a long time. It was returned to it's old tower in 1972 when that church was demolished. It was hung dead, and rubbings made of the inscriptions.
The church is used as a Mother's Union centre which serves tea and coffee and is a community centre for meetings and prayer. I went in and tentatively asked if the bell in the tower was ever used. I was expecting to find that it was rarely heard but the ladies replied that yes, it was rung every day at noon by them. They then described the pattern of ringing and it became obvious that it was an Angelus bell. Old Kate seems to have been used as a curfew bell for the City of Lincoln in the past so it is apt that it is now used as an Angelus, still heard by the City every day.
I bought a coffee and waited for noon so I could record the bell, when one of the ladies asked me if I'd like to ring it for them. So it was an honour to grab this lovely old bell. I had seen the rope in 2000 and read about it and had wanted to hear it since then.
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Interior Song School St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh Scotland
Tour Scotland video of the interior of the Song School by St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral on ancestry visit to Edinburgh. The Song School within the nearby Cathedral precinct is used by the Choristers for daily practice, where they are surrounded by beautiful murals by Phoebe Anna Traquair. It was these murals added between 1888 and 1892, which won Traquair national recognition. Within a tunnelled ceiling interior the East Wall depicts the cathedral clergy and choir. The South depicts Traquair's admired contemporaries such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and George Frederic Watts; the North, birds and choristers sing together. The West shows the four beasts singing the Sanctus
Ringing at Whitwell
Ringing Stedman and down at a district practice at Whitwell. These were the bells I learnt to ring on back in 1999, and they're just brilliant!
Phoebe Anna Traquair | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:27 1 Family life
00:01:44 2 Career
00:02:20 2.1 Royal Hospital for Sick Children
00:03:18 2.2 St Mary's Cathedral
00:04:00 2.3 Mansfield Place Church
00:04:31 2.4 Other works
00:06:22 3 Death
00:06:43 4 Works
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Phoebe Anna Traquair (; 24 May 1852 – 4 August 1936) was an Irish-born artist, who achieved international recognition for her role in the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland, as an illustrator, painter and embroiderer. Her works included large-scale murals, embroidery, enamel jewellery and book illuminations. In 1920 she became the first woman elected to the Royal Scottish Academy.